TRIB TALK

"If the Senate and the Congress want to cut the budget in Washington, instead of getting rid of the postal workers and the Postal Service, why don't they get rid of their pages and learn to do their own damn work?"

"Just about everybody by now knows the country is broke, so why would we even consider sending food aid to North Korea? China is the one that backs North Korea. They have all the surplus cash, so let them buy food if they want to send it over to North Korea."

"The greatest dog in Missouri has got to be Old Drum from Warrensburg. He gets my vote."

"I agree with the caller who mentioned the fact that Chris Belcher and the school district push these bond issues and the tax increases on the April ballot when no one votes and everyone's out of town. That's a crappy way to do business. They hire marketing firms to promote it and to send notes home with the kids to give to the parents complaining about the school system. I just think it's a ruse and a real cruddy way for this school district to conduct business. If they put this on the general election, it would be voted down 3 to 1 or 5 to 1 like it was three or four years ago."

"I'm just calling about the comment from someone who evidently must have been one of the employees caught eating breakfast at Deer Park. It's too bad you have to go blaming the person who called in initially because if you're out there eating breakfast or having lunch or taking a break that's not authorized or not off the clock, you need to follow along with all the rest of us and officially take your break when you're supposed to because I'm not planning on paying your payroll because you're taking your break whenever you feel like you want to. And that's not right."

"Hey there, city of Columbia, I'm proud to see it looks like you're fixing to make some repairs to West Worley and some of those potholes, swollen spots where the roads bubbled up and taking that on around Beverly there in front of the church and so forth where all those places are measured off. And that's only half the challenge because what you need to do now is be sure when you fix the potholes you don't turn them into unsightly bumps or speed bumps. That's the challenge. Talk to you later."

"Five billion dollars raised from the Buffett tax will do little to nothing to help stop our debt crisis. The only way it can be attacked substantially is through spending cuts."

"The letter to the editor regarding the NRA convention and its membership was inaccurate in one very large aspect. Many members such as myself do not subscribe to the extreme right-wing conservative views of the NRA leadership. We fully recognize that the leadership has been bought off by the 1 percent that call the shots of the right wing. Actually, we are very progressive; we support women's right to reproductive health; we support Obamacare and Johnson care, also known as Medicare; we seek to protect the middle and working classes from the excesses of the mega-wealthy. Frankly, we'd like nothing better than to put Romney and his super PAC buddies in a crate, strap it to the roof of our trucks and give them a ride around the back roads of Boone County that they would never forget. As Second Amendment Democrats, we are actively working for the re-election of the president."